Relocating/Nevada

QuietRN · Nov 24, 2008

I've lived in Vegas for a little over 3 years now....so I can't tell you anything about any of the other towns in NV. If you're coming from a big city - then adjusting to LV isn't a big deal. I moved from a very small town - so it took a while to adjust to the traffic! If I don't watch the news too regularly then I'm not bothered with living here! You have to be careful where you move - do lots of research!! If you can afford to - stay out of the center area of town... go towards the NW, SW or newer areas of Henderson. If you want to be near the city - but not right in it... then look into mountainsedge.com It's a fairly large master planned area that is quite nice! (My girls love the park there....though we don't live in that area!)

As for hospitals...there are many to choose from! You can try valleyhealthsys.com - they own many of the hospitals in town. There's also strosehospitals.org who have 3 in town (and they're amazing!!) and there's also many others (Summerlin, Sunrise, Southern Hills just to name a few). I suggest doing a search on each of the websites you can find to see what they might offer and what positions they're hiring.

Good luck!!

sribell86 · Nov 24, 2008

I've lived in Vegas most of my life (22 years) and I work at Sunrise Hospital. We are a 800 bed hospital running at half census for over a year+ now so we have units closed. UMC has the same problem, the economy just sucks. So far the hospital I work at has layed off 180+ nurses, cnas and other positions and they are planning more in Jan. They are hiring new nurses for less and laying off those who have been here a while and make the most.

ohmeowzer RN, RN · Nov 24, 2008

the valley health system is also cutting back and in a hiring freeze at ths point and cutting back on staff and laying off nurses and unit clerks , also closing units. many of the hospitals are not hiring new grads anymore and laying off some LPN's.

check twice before you move here, the ecomony is very bad